Pope Leo XIV entered a Rome hospital smiling and waving Tuesday ahead of surgery to remove a nodule on his lung. The Vatican said the operation to remove a pulmonary nodule, a small growth of tissue in the lung, would be carried out on Tuesday afternoon. But there was no immediate confirmation that it had […]
Read MoreBrazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro on Tuesday visited his father Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest and said that the former far-right president was “very happy” with the result of Brazil’s October 4 election where his son placed first. Flavio Bolsonaro’s visit, authorized by the Supreme Court on Monday, came two weeks ahead of a run-off […]
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US President Donald Trump’s administration has asked his ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign, the White House said Tuesday, amid allegations that she sought money from a Trump supporter and accepted lavish hospitality from wealthy Greek businessmen.”We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign,” Trump’s new press secretary Katie Zacharia told reporters at her first […]
Read MoreYemen’s Houthis said Saudi Arabia struck an oil facility in Sanaa on Tuesday, after the Riyadh-led coalition told civilians to leave the surrounding area in its first evacuation order for the Yemeni capital since the war flared up again. After a series of strikes on the kingdom’s airports and energy sites, the coalition’s spokesman said […]
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The French government was on Tuesday set to take the 2027 budget to debate in parliament, with the opposition Socialists and far right staunchly against it, as the government tries to reassure anxious debt markets while containing public anger over spending cuts. The lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, is due to begin examining […]
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Nach seinem Vorstoß zu einer möglichen Steuer auf Umsätze mit Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in Deutschland stellt Bundesdigitalminister Karsten Wildberger (CDU) eine solche Besteuerung vorerst zurück. “Ich will Wachstum durch KI und rede nicht über neue Steuern”, sagte Wildberger am Dienstag den Sendern RTL und ntv. Zunächst müsse Deutschland die wirtschaftlichen Chancen der Technologie nutzen.”Mein Vorschlag […]
Read MoreA top-selling Haitian-Canadian writer who was accused of using AI to write his breakthrough debut novel denied the allegations Tuesday in his first detailed response to the scandal, while acknowleding past plagiarism “mistakes”. Thelyson Orelien, 38, was accused of using artificial intelligence to write his French-language novel about migration “C’etait ca ou mourir” (“It Was […]
Read MoreUnder an overcast sky in southern Israel, Bedouin villagers wandered through the rubble of what used to be their homes, the latest to be demolished after being deemed illegal structures by Israeli authorities. The residents of Al-Dahiya in the Negev desert say they have nowhere else to go after bulldozers destroyed around 80 structures housing […]
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Eleven people were missing after two merchant ships were struck off the Bulgarian coast on Tuesday in the latest sign of increasing spillover from the Ukraine war in the Black Sea. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev summoned the Russian ambassador after drones struck a Ukrainian-owned cargo ship, while another vessel was also hit and sank […]
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